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Tuesday, December 31, 2024


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‘Probably the worst night of my life’: Saint Vincent Hospital nurses allege two patient deaths are related to understaffing

The assertions come nearly three years after nurses at the Worcester hospital settled a strike with the hospital’s for-profit owner, Tenet Healthcare, a battle waged in part over staffing levels.
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Housing


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On four acres left centuries ago to ‘the poor,’ Milton fights another battle over housing

The town Select Board has hit the brakes on plans to put 35 affordable apartments on the final undeveloped acres of the town's farm, once a refuge for the homeless.
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Elections


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Western Mass. roots helped shape one of Trump’s top economic advisers

Kevin Hassett, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to head the National Economic Council, grew up in Greenfield and said the flight of many of the community's factories led him to study tax policy.
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In a late scramble, state lawmakers send health care bills on Steward collapse and drug costs to Healey

The legislative rush provided another example of state lawmakers struggling to reach consensus on significant policy matters, a challenge that has increasingly plagued one of the least-transparent legislative bodies in the country in recent years.
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‘He never accepted their code’: Jimmy Carter’s outspokenness left him isolated from his successors

Carter was distant from the Republican and Democratic presidents who followed him, often getting on their nerves because of his outspokenness.
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2024 in Politics: Democrats plan path forward

WATCH: Mass. Congresswoman Katherine Clark looks back at the year that was and shares her party’s game plan to get back on track with reporter James Pindell.
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2024 in Politics: Race for the White House

WATCH: Washington Bureau chief Jackie Kucinich and political reporter James Pindell unpack an election year for the record books.
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2024 in Politics: Wild year on college campuses

Political reporter James Pindell talks with higher education reporter Hilary Burns about student protests, Washington pushback, and resignations.
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Trump has pressed for voting changes. GOP majorities in Congress will try to make that happen.

Republicans plan to move quickly in their effort to overhaul the nation’s voting procedures, seeing an opportunity with control of the White House and both chambers of Congress to push through long-sought changes that include voter ID and proof-of-citizenship requirements.
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Trump endorses Johnson to continue as House speaker

President-elect Donald Trump endorsed House Speaker Mike Johnson for another term in his post on Monday, moving to shore up the fortunes of a leader whose fate he threw into question in December when he sank a bipartisan spending deal Johnson had struck to avert a government shutdown.
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Trump loses appeal of Carroll’s $5 million award in sex-abuse case

President-elect Donald Trump on Monday failed to overturn a $5 million judgment that he sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-1990s and later defamed her.
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Russia and Ukraine swap more than 300 prisoners before US transition

Russia and Ukraine announced Monday that they had exchanged more than 300 prisoners of war in a deal brokered by the United Arab Emirates. The swap comes just weeks before US military aid for Ukraine is likely to be thrown into question under the Trump administration.
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Where is Russia finding new soldiers? Wherever it can.

Russia has ground through repeated waves of soldiers in Ukraine. It lost some of its most experienced troops at the very start of the invasion, then shipped off tens of thousands of convicts without seeming to care whether they survived.
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Biden announces $2.5 billion in security aid to Ukraine

The United States is sending nearly $2.5 billion in security assistance to Ukraine, as the Biden administration continues to rush military aid to Kyiv in the weeks before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
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OPINION


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With the Patriots, we are watching bad football and the rule of Robert Kraft over the family business

Patriots fans who grew used to winning are not patient about losing and the growing pressure to fire Mayo could be hard to resist.
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LETTERS


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She’s preferred ‘Happy holidays’ for decades for one simple reason

Not everyone in our country celebrates Christmas.
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LETTERS


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Remembering Jimmy Carter

Readers express their appreciation for a leader whose legacy they extol.
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First Night Boston adds new indoor programming to this year’s New Year’s Eve festivities. Here’s what to expect from the event.

This year's First Night Boston celebration on New Year's Eve will include new indoor programming, as well as annual traditions like the First Night parade, ice sculpture viewing, live music, and multiple fireworks displays.
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Weather


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A look back at a year full of turbulent weather

Weather across New England this year has been interesting from a science lens — full of extremes, new records.
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N.H. Politics


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N.H. bills would bar teachers from transporting minor students to nonemergency medical care, including abortions

The bills were inspired by a story of a teacher who was fired for lying about driving a student to an appointment for abortion services. The teacher says the student was an adult.
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On Baseball


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More work lies ahead, specifically when it comes to the lineup, as Craig Breslow continues to build 2025 Red Sox roster

Breslow's Red Sox still need a righthanded hitter with power to balance out their long list of lefty hitters.
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Slumping Bruin Trent Frederic is keeping his mind off contract status, trade deadline

Joe Sacco said he communicates regularly with Frederic but doesn’t feel the need to address contract matters with his seventh-year player.
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For the good of the franchise, the Patriots need to sit Drake Maye on Sunday

It would be coaching malpractice to send him out there in a meaningless game.
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Housing


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Renters struggle to afford housing in Greater Boston more than owners, Census data shows

Far more renters than owners in the Boston metro area spent 30 percent or more of their income on housing between 2019 and 2023.
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Health insurance premiums in Massachusetts are among the most expensive in the country. Why?

Advocates say that the root cause of frustrations with the cost of health coverage do not lie — at least primarily — with profiteering insurers.
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New Boston film makes the case that Larry DiCara is ‘the best mayor we never elected’

Bold Types is our weekly roundup of the movers and shakers on Boston's business scene.
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Obituaries


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Linda Lavin, Tony-winning Broadway actress who starred in the sitcom ‘Alice,’ dies

A success on Broadway, Lavin tried her luck in Hollywood in the mid-1970s.
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Jacques Roubaud, poetic master of form and whimsy, dies at 92

He was a mathematics professor at the University of Paris-Nanterre for two decades, and his poems carried some of the discipline and rigor inherent in that field.
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LOVE LETTERS


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Love Letters: Top 10 of 2024

One of Meredith’s favorites is No. 6.
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TV CRITIC'S CORNER


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Jimmy Carter and the small screen

PBS will re-air their 2002 documentary about Carter and stream it on the PBS app.
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Television


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Seacrest, Cooper, and country stars: Your ultimate guide to all the big New Year’s Eve TV specials

From country music celebrations to star-studded countdowns, here's what to watch on New Year's Eve.
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